Defined Contribution

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has urged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to create requirements for employers and trustees of workplace schemes to provide annuity services for members.

Legal & General (L&G) has auto-enrolled 525,000 members into schemes since October 2012.

Most respondents believe the majority of trust-based defined contribution (DC) schemes will struggle to demonstrate all the features in The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) DC code of practice.

Taha Lokhandwala examines Spence Johnson’s 40 predictions for the DC market

Rachel Dalton on Webb's use of Lloyds as an illustration of DA

The use of target date funds (TDFs) and outcome-orientated default strategies in workplace defined contribution (DC) schemes will eat away at lifestyle's hold on the market, research shows.

Natasha Browne talks to Arriva about designing a default for a diverse workforce

Some 22% of savers in defined contribution (DC) schemes do not believe managing investments in pension schemes is their responsibility, research from AllianceBernstein shows.

Almost half of this week's respondents were unsure if annuity brokers charge too much, while a third said they did and a fifth said they did not.

The row over charges in auto-enrolment (AE) schemes continues as the government's consultation on a cost cap closes today.